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(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Emma Hale Smith, wife of church founder Joseph Smith.
| April 29, 2021, 2:30 p.m.
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Robert Kirby: You haven’t a prayer of keeping me totally reverent at church
Turns out, whacking a kid with a hymnal and singing the Woody Woodpecker cartoon song weren’t proper behavior.
Robert Kirby
| Jan. 31, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
My earliest memories of attending church are not good ones. Mostly they consist of wearing clunky shoes, cardboard pants, a bow tie, and sitting still for longer than I could tolerate.
My personal stillness record back then was 7.4 seconds. When doctors finally discovered certain medications, I could hold myself together for a full 30 seconds. It wasn’t nearly long enough a far shorter time than any church service.